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Sea of Colours
| Program Title | Sea of Colours - Bunaken: a Painter's Palette |
| Brief description | One of the latest place on earth where corals are still colourful and sustain an array of different animals. |
| Synopsis |
All around the world, coral reefs are losing their wonderful colours due to global warming. Bunaken remains a miraculous exception. These islands, lying on the northern tip of Sulawesi, rival a painter's palette in the splendid array of colours seen in the reefs.  At Bunaken there are probably more species of coral than in the majority of other coralline areas of the world. This healthy and diversified community sustains a multitude of barrier fish and other marine creatures, making it a centre of great biodiversity. 
Some unusual organisms thrive here: the pigmy seahorse with its bizarre appearance and strange behaviour, the mimic octopus with its amazing imitations of other creatures, the razor fish schools with their habit of swimming head down, and many other colourful inhabitants of the coral reef. The islands themselves, and the adjacent mainland, also form an extremely productive and diverse environment which mirrors the riches found underwater. This land habitat will be described as well, thus completing the picture of a pristine ecosystem. A unique habitat that researchers, using new approaches to conservation, are trying to preserve. |
| Delivery | 2001 |
| Running time | 30' |
| Note | "Sea of Colours" is the first documentary, and meant to be a pilot edisod of a series of 13X30' provisionally called FORGOTTEN EDENS Hot Spots". The series will be dealing with wildlife places in the world not very well known and yet rich in biodiversity and in spectacular landscapes and species. These places are somehow threatened and the series will also portray the human-wildlife conflict and how dedicated researchers on locations are trying to solve it. The other areas chosen so far to be part of the series are the following:
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